‘재조일본인’ 연구와 ‘식민지수탈론’

The Study of ‘The Japanese resided in Korea’ and ‘The Colonial Exploitation Theory’

The japanese resided in Korea is one of important research subjects. Through this subject, we can investigate their modernity and colonialism which they have had between empire and colony. Because it was a major research target which demonstrate colonial aggression and exploitation have been performed by combining civilians with imperial power and state power. With empirical research surrounding the transplant process of the japanese, the distorted korea recognition of the japanese resided in Korea has been criticized strongly. In recent years, many researchers, focusing on each trade port, have investigated the nature of Japanese colonial rule and colonial modernity by identifying the population fluctuation related with the formation of the colonial city, and the structural characteristics of Japanese social organization and the organization s status. The study based on the theory of colonial exploitation presented the historical image that modern Japan occupied Korea politically and militarily, and dominated korean economy by transplanting its civilian settlers in colonial society, and in this process, private organizations such as the japanese resident union in korea and the Chambers of Commerce combining with the colonial power have played the spearhead roles. Of course, as the colonial power was much simpler than that of the japanese empire, and took the centralized institutional form, the approaching method of a single colonial power seems useful in terms of macroscopic approaching method. However, as previous studies implicitly assumed, this recognition has a great weakness in the identification of another and hidden characteristic of the colonial power. I think that an access regarding the colonial ruling power as a single agent is insufficient to understand conflicts between various power groups of interests within the multidimensional reality. In this thesis, based on concrete empirical research on the japanese general government-the japanese resided in Korea-the korean, I will examine the japanese recognition of the japanese general government and the colonial policies, and the main leading groups interest relationships. This methodology will help to investigate the contents and the nature of conflicts, alliances, and cultural inter-penetrations which have been variously ongoing in the colonial Koreans and Japanese.